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What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby WarthogARJ » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:05 pm

You know, this is quite like playground and kindergarden talk.
And that’s insulting the smart kids there.

I take it that none of the windup and pisstakers have ever been involved in designing anything?
Or thought about why something was done the way it was?

Do you just go to work at whatever you do and do what you are told.
Then come home, eat whatever comes off the plate, then go to the local and drink watery beer, and watch grown men still wearing shorts paid millions kick a ball around?
And talk about it with guys who do exactly the same thing?
Hmmmm....exciting stuff.

And whatever you talk about, you get the “facts” from a cursory glance through the Sun or browsing the internet to read the opinions of those just as knowledgeable as yourselves, which is to say....well i don’t think it needs to be actually said, does it?
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Mike » Wed Aug 15, 2018 7:35 am

You’ve spent too much time in the company of the septics :lol:
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What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby bulls in transit » Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:03 am

If your so successful in your own field could you please explain ( in an essay of less than 100 words ) why your driving an older Transit van and worried that it may stop to function up or down a hill with no or very little fuel?
Don’t you receive vast amounts of royalties from your own engineering design masterpieces....


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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby andz327 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:22 am

richgold wrote:I think I may have solved the original problem. After giving it lots of thought my solution is....

Put more fuel in the tank.

For step by step instructions on how to do this, refer to the owners manual.

Hope this helps.

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yuip i 2nd that put some fookin fuel in it for fooks sake. Then you wouldn't need to have written an essay about needing fuel
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby ake » Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:01 am

Sender and fuel pickup are generally in the centre of the tank. So it won’t make any difference whether it is facing up hill or downhill, it will start drawing air all the same. The top of the sender is nearer the front but the float itself is nearer the centre

Given the difficulty in bleeding the fuel system on the old MK6, this situation should be avoided. Common sense would dictate this.

I can’t help but think that this is a troll post, designed purely to generate negative responses, so that the poster can then complain about the responses. This is clearly demonstrated by your accusing a moderator of using bad language when we all can see that he clearly did not, and your general inference that we are all stupid and just following what we are told, unlike you, the supremely intelligent being who knows that it’s all a conspiracy, and that the earth is flat.
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby richgold » Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:17 pm

If he is a troll he's done his job as there are 2 pages of this rubbish now. And five pages in his other mad thread.
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Mike » Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:51 pm

ake wrote:the earth is flat.

:lol:
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Punto443 » Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:24 pm

Reminds me of PDQ :roll:
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby coonak » Sun Aug 19, 2018 11:50 am

What about MAD MONK did he ever come back?
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Punto443 » Sun Aug 19, 2018 12:27 pm

coonak wrote:What about MAD MONK did he ever come back?

Not been logged on for 3years!
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Mike » Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:22 pm

coonak wrote:What about MAD MONK did he ever come back?

Who was the other fvcktard that trolled this place and went away with a flea in his ear?
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby coonak » Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:12 pm

DBVM ?
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby bigjohnthomas » Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:53 pm

bloody trolls :x :x

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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby Mike » Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:45 pm

coonak wrote:DBVM ?

No, he’ll be back once he gets parole. I think it was Smiffy or similar?
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Re: What lets you run to lowest fuel level: up or down hill

Postby WarthogARJ » Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:16 pm

loot wrote:There must be a vacuum setup inside the tank because the sender is a clear foot away from the back and looking on eBay at the sender's they don't appear to have any straw tubes coming off them with weights on that you might expect to travel to the extremities of the tank, which in theory means that any slight hill would cause a problem.

The tank would need to be looked at internally to figure it out.
Maybe look in bemm.
There are 2 vents 1 on each end and no doubt a baffles inside.

I doubt that from empty and running to cutting out on an hill there will be more than a cup full of diesel in the tank remaining.(imo).

So I wouldn't be concerned really.
I'm sure that the tanks from 2000 to 2018 are very different at all, so that's a decent length of time for Ford's expensive engineering ppl to have figured it out :wink:


That’s interesting.
I read in Haynes i think that the sender was a float valve sensor.
But maybe that’s wrong.

There are a lot of ways to sense fuel level. My BMW bike has a float valve in the OEM tank but after I swapped tanks to a bigger one with extra capacity in side “lobes” the OEM float sensor is not accurate anymore. The mod is fairly common, and those of us who have done it were looking at various ways to sense fuel level in this type of tank: cost effectively.
The bikes are dual sport: on/off road. So your fuel consumption is hard to predict, and by the nature of the hike you can get to quite remote areas, so running out of fuel is not good.

I heard from a mechanic friend that Vauxhall diesel vans have the reputation of being hard to restart if you are low on fuel, and then park on a hill. My previous experience with motorbikes as well as petrol cars was that they were designed to feed you the last gasp of fuel easier when pointed uphill. But that is not the case on my van from what i have seen

The bottom profile of the tank is not flat, but has a lot of indents in it.
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